European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 30, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Colorado River How Long can the West quench is thirst a photo melting Tow form Tribula rift of Row Colorado Row. By Tad Bartimus associated press from glacial trickle to sluggish ditch the Colorado River is a 1.440 mile spine Otliffe. Everything it touches thrives and pros pers. Everything else is Sagebrush and is the american Nile More precious than Coal or Timber or Gold. Puny compared to the Miles wide Mississippi or the mighty Muddy Missouri the Colorado sometimes acts More Crick than River. But its Wyoming Page 14 the stars and stripes history is linked with two of the world s wonder grand Canyon and the Hoover dam. Today the Colorado River gives sustenance to 15 million people and countless cows. Seven w slates Wyoming. New Mexico Utah Corad Zona. Nevada and California and Mexico a River for their Legal share quarrelling Over every h California the biggest guzzler on the River r ways been Arizona s archrival Tor water. Hartzor legged the Colorado River compact of 1922 times before the supreme court the final re 1964 ended 11 years of lawsuits that Cost 01 and Arizona $5 million in Legal fees. The court upheld the agreement which Art parcelled out the River to the seven Western state before air conditioning and irrigation triggered Western population explosion. That compact has kept neighbor states const Odds with each other but it also United them i opposition to mexican claims on their River. Is there enough water lowing Between the cd River s narrow Banks to keep up with the West or 6l no a Moil expert. At least not the w being used now with almost 90 percent of it earmarked for agriculture. Farmers ear the Sun Urban expansion will reach out from the Begalor to snatch away their convoluted Long cherished rights. Power in America rests with the number Phoenix and Tucson have the numbers. The a Miles East of the Colorado River on higher Youk their politicians have found the water for thet Rocs ends by going Back to the age old source Trail Tymous with the West. Out Here it is said water runs up hib toward water Means Power. Power Means clout to water. In the waning Days of december and 1 of the new year the Power brokers plan to j what will probably be the last big faucet on i Colorado River. The Central Arizona project is an that lifts water Over mountains. It has been my the dreaming stage on Congress plate for w Ades under construction the past 12 years. My it a pork barrel Boondoggle and environment Ter. Its champions Call it a godsend that to Central Arizona Blossom. A gov. Bruce Babbitt says the Cap is Arizo water on paper the Colorado River is already melted by the mistakes Uncle Sam made with it compact. The Bureau of reclamation th4 Agency mainly responsible for water develop a the West predicts demand will outstrip my 2000. California water officials believe the w River s Point of no return comes in 1990. J without it water in cities of Loe Ano vegas and Denver would be gasping Tor a dirt Karl its water the lettuce in new York de Cate not on Kansas City plates the carrots in san fran Ping carts would become epicurean Dwightt without its water the Sun Belt would How Tif courses swimming pools and suburban or i. A very mighty River which ran so a storm that we could hardly sad again i Spanish explorer Hernando de Alarcon in Hli i when he first journeyed up the Colorado i of California in 1540. Now this Sitty. Auy i name Means Rusty red in Spanish Tea plumbing system. From its birth 14,000 Mil Colorado Rockies to its death at sea level i saturday i
